Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
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When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.
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Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.
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It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
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The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
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The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
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Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
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Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.
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If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
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Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
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We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
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To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.
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The good is always the enemy of the best.
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Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."
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The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility
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There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.
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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
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Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
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God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.